Rebecca asked as she descended the stairs the following Sunday morning, “would you please have the carriage brought around?” “Yes, my lady,” he answered. He sent a lad running to the stable with the message. Turning back to her, he watched as she adjusted her gloves and settled her bonnet more se...
Clair.” Captain Fitzgerald smiled as he glanced at his daughter. “I feared I would not get to see you hang.” “Father!” Abigail cried. “Let him go. Let us both go. Please.” “Both of you?” Fitzgerald scowled when the two men flanking Abigail, each holding her arms, snickered. He raised his hand and...
Kate quelled before the man’s wrath. She dipped as much as her bulk allowed. “Yes, m’lord.” As the door closed, Sybill glanced up from her book. The soft patter of rain exhausted the wind’s force against the windows. She sat on a settee amid a mound of cushions. With her feet drawn up beneath her...
When her face turned toward him, she radiated rage. She could not see anything. He swallowed his chuckle. If she discovered his amusement with her circumstances, she would be even more impossible to deal with. And she usually was incredibly difficult! Never had he met anyone who was so eager to d...
Nils smiled as Jack came into the large collection of rooms that were set aside for the use of Lord Sutherland’s guests. This room alone was bigger than Nils’s cottage back in the land of the Norrfoolk, and three other chambers opened from it. One held a wide bed that sat in the middle of...
Even so, she had no privacy in her rooms. She always changed behind a dressing screen and glanced over her shoulder to make sure Alexei had not entered her room. When she received no answer, she opened the door. She thought Alexei would be here, because he had told her to let him know when she an...